Society guideline links: Hepatitis C infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis C virus infection" and "Society guideline links: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients" and "Society guideline links: Kidney transplantation".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis C virus infection" and "Society guideline links: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients" and "Society guideline links: Kidney transplantation".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis C virus infection" and "Society guideline links: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients" and "Society guideline links: Kidney transplantation".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Liver transplantation".)

International

●Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO): Clinical practice guideline for the prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of hepatitis C in chronic kidney disease (2022)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Guidelines for the care and treatment of persons diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C virus infection (2018)

●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO): Practice guideline for the diagnosis, management and prevention of hepatitis C (2017)

●KDIGO: Clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (2009)

Canada

●Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) and Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN): Commentary on the 2009 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the care of kidney transplant recipients (published 2010)

United States

●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): HCV guidelines

●AASLD-IDSA: Hepatitis C guidance – Recommendations for testing, managing, and treating hepatitis C virus infection, update (2023)

●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on viral hepatitis (2019)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update – Expert review: Care of patients who have achieved a sustained virologic response after antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C infection (2017)

●AASLD, AST, and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN): Practice guideline on the evaluation of the pediatric patient for liver transplantation (2014)

●AASLD and AST: Practice guideline on the evaluation for liver transplantation in adults, 2013 (published 2014)

●AASLD and AST: Practice guideline on the long-term management of the successful adult liver transplant, 2012 (published 2013)

●AASLD and AST: Practice guideline on the long-term medical management of the pediatric patient after liver transplantation (2013)

Europe

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Recommendations on the treatment of hepatitis C – Final update of the series (2020)

United Kingdom

●British Viral Hepatitis Group (BVHG): UK position statement on the use of organs from hepatitis C viraemic donors and increased infectious risk donors in hepatitis C negative recipients

●British Transplantation Society/Renal Association (RA): Guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation, 4th edition (2018)

●BTS and the British Association for Studies of the Liver (BASL): United Kingdom guidelines on living donor liver transplantation (2015)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): National clinical guideline on the management of hepatitis C (2013)

Australia–New Zealand

●Kidney Health Australia–Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (KHA-CARI): Transplantation guidelines – Recipient assessment for transplantation: HIV, HBV and HCV infection (2013)